OK unless you’re someone that devours the tech press or continuously monitors release notes for every release of the particular cloud platform in question this is sadly the case with a lot of platforms. New features will be added that you’ll find out about weeks or months later.

I don’t think I’m too far behind on this one from a general release point of view but if you’re one of the former people then you’ll know this has been tested for a few months!

Teams Shared Channels

A simple concept but I think really useful. Basically two teams with their own Teams (anyone else get confused by this language?!) can share a single channel without having to create another new Team for the two groups of people.

So rather than proliferate the amount of Teams I have to be in, I can simply get a specific channel shared to me and place this channel in a Team of my choosing. See note 1 on this below though.

There are many other scenarios where this could be useful, for example using hierarchies of shared channels where say Architecture could use an announcements channel in their Team where new standards or patterns are communicated, this could be then set as a shared channel that could then be used by other teams, simply adding the channel to their own Teams workspace to see this information rather than having to create another Team to have to goto.

It feels as if this will really improve collaboration, certainly internally but as this is available across tenants maybe externally too.

Note 1: this depends on the way the shared channel is shared. If it is shared to a Team owner, then they can place the channel in a Team of their choosing. If it is shared to an individual person then they will simply see a new Team with a single channel.